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Training will soon begin in South Australia for communication assistants in court and to improve police interviewing techniques now that the Vulnerable Witnesses Bill has passed into law. The legislation gives people with an intellectual disability equality before the law by providing ...

Is the office of the Speaker a parliamentary or a party position? These are constitutional, rather than simply political questions that go to the heart of the workings of the Parliament. The University of Melbourne's Laureate Professor Emeritus Cheryl Saunders is one of the country's leading ...

Hailed as an Australian first, the South Australian parliament today passed legislation giving people with an intellectual disability equal treatment in the justice system. The Vulnerable Witnesses Bill passed four years after a pivotal case where seven disabled children were allegedly ...